Amitava Nag's latest work is a book on Soumitra Chatterjee based on his long interviews with the multi-faceted genius. Nag and Chatterjee shared a relationship
Colm’s unexpectedly altered behaviour towards his onetime best friend, Padraic, the decadence into which Padraic descends, the ensuing destructive conflict between the two, and its
Rani Mukerji performs the title role in the film who fought with the entire system in Norway to gain custody of her kids. Sagarika was
In the preface to No Return Address: Partition and Stories of Displacement, Manjira Majumdar asks pertinent questions—Why was Bengal as a province divided several times
Koral Dasgupta is an author with a mission. Her mission is to present the stories of the Pancha Kanyas and the five Satis depicted in
‘Do Bigha Zamin’ is closer to the work of Vittorio De Sica than it is to many other neorealist films, especially when you compare the
At a lavish party thrown on the evening of the premiere, invited celebrities whispered that this would be the biggest flop in the history of
Who remembers Jagadish Chandra Bose today? Perhaps only scientists involved in advanced research in the sciences he had specialized in. School going children might be
The Heavenly Christmas Tree is a short story by the great Russian storyteller Fyodor Dostoyevsky. First published in 1876, the story is also known as
Arthur Symons in his seminal work The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) introduced and analysed French Symbolist authors. In this essay he discusses the style
His voice was rasping, cold, and monotonous in a low key. He could not be called a talkative personality; but with his detached calm manner
This is a centenary history of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction which Rabindranath Tagore later named Sriniketan (originally known by the name Surul, a village
Entries from the journal of Louisa May Alcott, American author and novelist.
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These questionable controversial verses that came to be known as ‘satanic verses,’ authorized intercessory prayers to al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat — three Meccan female deities.
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